Required Readings
Babb, Sanora. Whose Names Are Unknown. University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780806137124. [Preview with Google Books]
Bernardin, Susan, Melody Graulich, et al. Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880–1940. Rutgers University Press, 2003. [Preview with Google Books]
Calof, Rachel. Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains. Indiana University Press, 1995; repr. 1936. ISBN: 9780253209863. [Preview with Google Books]
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Edited by Joseph R. Urgo. Broadview Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781551114910.
Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN: 97806743600419. [Preview with Google Books]
Hansen, Karen V. Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890–1930. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199746811. [Preview with Google Books]
Lee, Mary Paik. Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. University of Washington Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780295969695. [Preview with Google Books]
Silko, Leslie. Ceremony. Penguin Classics, 2006; repr. 1976. ISBN: 9780143104919. [Preview with Google Books]
| WEEK # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview of the Course |
Limerick, Patricia. “Region and Reason.” In All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. Edited by Edward L. Ayers et al. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, pp. 83–104. ISBN: 9780801852060. Rich, Adrienne. “Notes toward a Politics of Location.” In Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985. W.W. Norton, 1986, pp. 210–31. ISBN: 9780393023763. |
| 2 | Theoretical Overview: Constructing Gender, Race–Ethnicity and “the West” |
Anzaldua, Gloria. “La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness.” Borderlands / La Frontera. Aunt Lute Books, 1987. pp. 77–91. Fur, Gunlög. “Immigrants and Indians.” Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 3 (2014): 55–76. Gershon, Ilana, and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. “Introduction: The Symbolic Capital of Ignorance.” Social Analysis 44, no. 2 (2000): 3–14. Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. “Integrating Race and Gender.” In Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 6–17. ISBN: 9780674007321. [Preview with Google Books] Jacobs, Margaret. “Getting Out of a Rut: Decolonizing Western Women’s History.” Pacific Historical Review 79, no. 4 (2010): 585–604. Pratt, Mary Louise. “Introduction.” In Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge, 1992, pp. 1–11. ISBN: 9780415060950. [Preview with Google Books] Rudnick, Lois. “Re–naming the Land: Anglo–Expatriate Women in the Southwest.” In The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women’s Writing and Art. Edited by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk. Yale University Press, 1987, pp. 10–26 and 239–44. ISBN: 9780300036886. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 3 | The Great Plains and the Farm Frontier |
Calof, Rachel. Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains. Indiana University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780253209863. [Preview with Google Books] Hansen, Karen V. “Preface”, “Introduction.” Chapters 1, 2, 5,7, and 8 in Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890–1930. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199746811. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 4 | The Farm Frontier—Literary Perspectives |
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Edited by Joseph R. Urgo. Broadview Literary Texts, 2009. ISBN: 9781551114910. Fetterley, Judith, and Marjorie Pryse. “Redefinitions” and “Locating Regionalism in American Literary History.” In Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. University of Illinois Press, 2002, pp. 1–45. ISBN: 9780252027673. [Preview with Google Books] Roberson, Susan. “Narratives of Relocation and Dislocation: An Introduction.” In Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 1–16. ISBN: 9780826211767. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 5 | The Borderlands |
Gordon, Linda. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 1–208, 246–53, and 275–313. ISBN: 9780674005358. [Preview with Google Books] Jacobs, Margaret. “Breaking and Remaking Families: The Fostering and Adoption of Native American Children in Non–Native Families in the American West, 1880–1940.” In On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest. Edited by David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio. University of California Press, 2012, pp. 19–46. ISBN: 9780520272392. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 6 | Challenges to Gender and Sexuality |
Boag, Peter. “Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Searching for the Trans in Western Gender History.” Western Historical Quarterly 36, no. 4 (2005): 477–98. Connell, Raewyn. “Transsexual Women and Feminist Thought: Toward New Understanding and New Politics.” Sex: A Thematic Issue Signs 37, no. 4, (2012): 857–81. Schlatter, Evelyn A. “Drag’s a Life: Women, Gender, and Cross–Dressing in the Nineteenth–Century West.” In Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West. Edited by Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage. University of Oklahoma Press, 1997, pp. 334–48. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 7 | Immigration, Migration, and Farm Labor on the West Coast |
Lee, Mary Paik. Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. University of Washington Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780295969695. [Preview with Google Books] Chiu, Monica. “Constructing ‘Home’ in Mary Paik Lee’s Quiet Odyssey.” In Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Edited by Susan Roberson. University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 121–36. ISBN: 9780826211767. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 8 | Women, Politics, and the Radical West |
Laurence, James. “A Chance Meeting and the Birth of an Idea: the Origins of Salt of the Earth.” In The Suppression of ‘Salt of the Earth’: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politics Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America. University of New Mexico Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780826320285. [Preview with Google Books] Baker, Ellen. “The Woman’s Picket.” Chapters 5 and 6 in On Strike and On Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780807857915. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 9 | Cultural Brokers and Moral Reform |
Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola. We Fed Them Cactus. University of New Mexico Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780826315038. [Preview with Google Books] Scharff, Virginia. “So Many Miles to a Person: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Makes New Mexico.” In Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement and the West. University of California Press, 2002, pp. 115–135. ISBN: 9780520237773. Spack, Ruth. “Introduction” and “Transforming Women: Zitkala–Sa’s American Indian Stories.” In America’s Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900. University of Nebraska Press, 2002, pp. 1–11 and 144–170. ISBN: 9780142437094. [Preview with Google Books] Zitkala–Sa. Impressions of an Indian Childhood. Dodo Press, 2008, pp. 7–47. ISBN: 9781409910312. |
| 10 | Cultural Brokers via the “Empire of the Lens” | Bernardin, Susan, Melody Graulich, et al. Trading Gazes: Euro–American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880–1940. Rutgers University Press, 2003. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 11 | The Great Depression and World War II |
Babb, Sanora. Whose Names Are Unknown. University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780806137124. [Preview with Google Books] Johnson, Marilynn. “Boomtowns and the Control of Urban Space.” In The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. University of California Press, 1993, pp. 143–50 and 171–81. [Preview with Google Books] Lemke–Santangelo, Gretchen. Chapters 3 and 4 in Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. University of the North Carolina Press, 1996. |
| 12 | Representations of the West: Writers, Artists & Mythmakers |
Silko, Leslie. Ceremony. Penguin Classics, 2006. ISBN: 9780143104919. [Preview with Google Books] Owens, Louis. “The Very Essence of Our Lives: Leslie Silko’s Webs of Identity.” In Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony: A Casebook. Edited by Allan Chavkin. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195142846. [Preview with Google Books] Zamir, Shamoon. “Literature in a ‘National Sacrifice Area’: Leslie Silko’s ‘Ceremony.’” In New Voices in Native American Literature. Edited by Arnold Krupat. Smithsonian, 1993. ISBN: 9781560982265. |
| 13 | Student Presentations on Term Projects & Professor Rudnick’s Slide show on O’Keeffe | No readings. |
